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Valuable Crazy Facts About Money

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Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a particular country or socio-economic context, or is easily converted to such a form. The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange; a unit of account; a store of value; and, sometimes, a standard of deferred payment. Any item or verifiable record that fulfills these functions can be considered as money. Here are some valuable facts about money that would blow your mind.

 Valuable Facts About Money

  • Do you know facts about Money that the first Credit Card was created because of the embarrassment of a man who had to pay for dinner but forgot his wallet.
  • The World’s First Paper Money was created in China 1,400 years ago.
  • More Monopoly Money is printed every year than Real money.
  • Drug lord Pablo Escobar had so much cash that rats ate almost $1 billion of his money each
    year.
  • People have used many forms of money, such as soap, cocoa beans, elephant tail hairs, entire elephants, grain, animal skins, fishhooks, feathers, tea tobacco, bird claws, and bear teeth.
  • The Romans were the first to stamp the image of a living person on a coin. After winning in war, Julius Caesar
    featured his portrait on a coin in 44 B.C.
  • Abraham Lincoln was the first American to be pictured on an American coin in 1909. The designer Victor David Brenner put his initial VDB at the base of the portrait on Lincoln’s arm.
  • Governments can get money in three ways: 1) print it, 2) borrow it, or 3) collect taxes from their citizens.
  • Before early forms of money were developed, people used to barter, which is a simple form of exchanging goods.
  • Early Romans used salt as a form of money. In fact, the word “salary” comes from sal, which means “salt” in Latin.
  • Over 170 different currencies are used around the world today.
  • The study or collection of money is “numismatics,” which is Greek for “coins in circulation.”
  • The first dollar bill did not depict George Washington. Rather, it showed a portrait of Salmon P. Chase, the U.S.
    Secretary of the Treasury in 1862.
  • The Massachusetts Bay Colony became the first colony to make coins in 1652. In 1690, Massachusetts also began making paper money called bills of credit.
  • The word “coin” is from the Latin word cuneus for “wedge,” because the dye for stamping metal coins was wedge-shaped.
  • World’s smallest banknote issued in Morocco and was the size of a postage stamp.

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Some Known Facts About Pranab Mukherjee

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Pranab Mukherjee
Pranab Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India, in office since July 2012. In a political career spanning six decades, Mukherjee was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India. Prior to his election as President, Mukherjee was Union Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012, and the Congress party’s top troubleshooter.

Some Known Facts About Pranab Mukherjee

  • Pranab Mukherjee is among the few politicians who are quite versatile and can manage almost anything. He was the one who held three key ministries – Finance, Defence and External Affairs.
  • The one and only one finance minister who has presented budgets since pre-liberalization till post-liberalization era. Till the date, he has presented 7 budgets.
  • Before becoming a full-fledged politician, Pranab Mukherjee was a college teacher and began his political career in 1969.
  • Pranab Mukherjee maintains a diary and manages to write a page every day. His daughter Sharmistha
    Mukherjee wants to publish it
  • Euro money Magazine in the year 1984 rated Pranab Mukherjee  as one of the best finance ministers in the world.
  • The Bengali politician loves fish curry and consumes it almost every day except Tuesdays. He is extremely fond of poshto which is cooked along with vegetables.
  • A religious person, Mukherjee performs puja every day. He also recites Sanskrit shlokas and hymns.
  • He is said to be common man’s person or representative.
  • Pranab Mukherjee is a workaholic and works nearly 18 hours a day. He relaxes by listening to Rabindra sangeet before sleeping and this must be the secret of his cool temper.
  • Another secret of his fitness is that Pranab Mukherjee loves to walk especially in the morning and takes 40 rounds of his 90 m
    lawn.
  • Pranab Mukherjee parliamentary career began in 1969 when he became a member of the Rajya Sabha from the Congress Party.
  • He’s known to be a voracious reader and he usually starts reading three books simultaneously.
  • He is inspired by Chinese politician Deng Xiaoping.
  • He believes in Goddess Durga. It’s also said that he fasts during three days of the Durga Puja.
  • He has not taken a holiday for the last 20 years except a trip to his village every year for Durga Puja, when he dons a priest’s robe and performs prayers for four days.
  • Pranab Mukherjee was once famous for smoking his trademark Dunhill pipe. He gave up smoking many years ago and now advises others to kick the butt.
  • Indira Gandhi once suggested to Mukherjee that he hire an English tutor and brush up his pronunciation. He
    simply refused, preferring his thickly accented Bengali English.
  • He began his career as a clerk in the office of the Deputy Accountant-General in Kolkata.
  • He is an early riser – and hits works after his puja every morning. At night, he reads before he goes to bed, and take a customary nap in the afternoon for an hour.
  • Mukherjee was derisively called a “rootless wanderer” by some of his party colleagues as he had never won a Lok Sabha election till 2004. When he won from the Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal in 2004, he literally wept with joy. “For me this is a dream come true, a dream I have cherished and nourished all my life,” he had said.

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Tricks to become A Positive Person

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Have the desire:
First thing first, to become a positive person one must have a strong desire to be positive. And the desire will come only if you are convinced that becoming a positive person will enhance the quality of life. Positivity is like an aura,
and you know you are a positive person when people start trusting you, random people become polite with you, colleagues at work start patronising you, and you start building rapport easily.Be realistic: 
Do not try to become a saint. Becoming a positive person does not mean you can never have any negative emotion or encounter any negative situation. It is the overall attitude that matters. Don’t get bogged down by failure, and
disappointed when your expectations are not met. Mentally, you should always be calculating a way out of difficult situations come what may.

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Experiment:

Be a keen observer. Use everyday life incidents to see how you can manage them in a more positive manner. These will serve as perfect instances to turn your outlook more positive. For starters, contemplate how you could have better handled a situation by being less hostile and more indulgent. Come up with five ways that could have saved the day, and learn to take things at face value sometimes. Remember, your ability to trust the other person also reflects your genuineness.Speech and body language: 

Try and make positive words a part of your daily lingo, and work on your body language in way that you come across as friendly and approachable. Look amused when something is amusing, laugh when something is funny, congratulate when someone’s bought something new, and give others a chance to narrate their side of the story. Never think you are the only interesting, knowing one around.Company:

One way to becoming positive is to seek positive company as both positivity and negativity are infectious. If the people you spend most of your time with are grumpy or have a pessimistic standpoint, you’ll find yourself mirroring the same emotions before a different set of people inadvertently. In order to inculcate positivity, it is imperative that your friend circle is a positive, energetic, and a happy bunch. You’ll find yourself carrying the same positivity
everywhere you go.Activities: 
Do not remain idle and brood. Take up positive activities with others or in isolation. Share a joke, narrate a pleasant incident, take part in sporting activities, go for a run in the evening after work, have healthy sex, and you’ll find yourself bubbling with positive energy.

Must Read: Tricks to become A Positive Person

Take it easy: 

Everyday life is bound to give you shocks. Be prepared to minimise impact and shrug it off. For instance, you may get too hassled everyday while driving to work or trying to park your car. When you accept the fact that certain things cannot be changed, you’ll be more at ease with yourself and those around too.Learn yoga:

“Do pranayam everyday as it lets you focus and meditate. Not only does it secrete happy hormones but also creates a sense of awareness within you.” With the help of yogic asanas you control your breathing, and by way of it, control your mind from wandering. Every time you do yoga, you feel a surge of positive energy through your body that calms your nerves, soothes your mind, elevates your mood, and not to mention enhances your level of tolerance.Maintain a diary: 

Instead of recounting all events of the day, filter out only the positive ones and make a note of them. When we look for positivity in the little things that make our lives worthwhile, we leave no room for negativity. “Try consciously practising this for 10 days, and at the end of day ten when you read your diary back you’ll only have memories of all the good things that happened to you”.Say ‘thank you’:

Thank god, thank your parents, friends, and thank yourself for all the hard work you did, for everything you achieved. “Saying thank you frequently makes you humble, and a humble person is seldom cynical.”

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Facts about Vitamin D you should know

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Vitamin D deficiency is becoming a new lifestyle problem these days. It is a common problem among older adults and people who do not get much exposure to sunlight. Since our school days, we have been studying that sunlight is a rich source of vitamin D but, the fact is our body produces vitamin D with the help of sunlight through the
process of synthesization.Vitamin D deficiency is becoming a major health problem because of the sedentary lifestyle. However, lifestyle is not the only reason to blame for this increasing health problem. Lack of vitamin D in the diet, not getting enough exposure to sunlight, having dark skin and obesity are some of the reasons for vitamin D deficiency.

Read Also: Benefits of Vitamin C

Here are some facts you should know about Vitamin D:

  • Vitamin D is fat-soluble vitamin found in yogurt, cereals, cheese and juice. There are very few dietary sources of vitamin D (especially for vegetarians).
  • Vitamin D is essential for the body in order to absorb calcium and phosphorus we get from the food
    we eat. It helps in building and maintaining bones; protects against bone loss and osteoporosis.
  • Vitamin D assists immune system to fight against bacteria and viruses.
  • Research suggests that optimum levels of vitamin D helps in protecting the body from getting 16 different types of cancers like- lung, breast, ovarian, prostate, colon, pancreatic cancer and more.
  • The rich sources of vitamin D are fatty fish such as salmon, tuna, and mackerel.
  • Beef liver and egg yolks provide small amounts of vitamin D to the body but still can help people who are allergic to eating fish.
  • Skin exposed to sunlight indoors through a window does not produce vitamin D. Also, cloudy day and shade cut down the amounts of vitamin D skin makes.
  • People with dark skin tone needs 20-30 times as much exposure to sunlight as fair-skinned people, to generate the same amounts of vitamin D.
  • Though the optimum level of vitamin D protects one from getting cancer, but some research studies shows that high level of vitamin D increases the risk of pancreatic cancer.
  • High level of vitamin D in the body can cause nausea, weight loss, poor appetite, vomiting, weakness, and constipation. It can also damage kidneys and cause a problem with heart rhythm.
  • People with low vitamin D level are prescribed supplements by the doctor to fulfill the deficient requirement.
  • Excessive exposure to sunlight does not cause vitamin D poisoning because the body limits the amount of this vitamin it produces.
  • Use sunscreen lotion or cover your skin with cloth when you are going to spend long hours in sunlight. Excessive exposure to direct sunlight may cause sunburn or skin cancer.
  • Build up your skin’s sunlight tolerance by slow and gradual exposure to the sun. Spend 15-20 minutes in sunlight 2 to 4 times a week with unprotected skin.

Also, Read: Surprising Benefits of eating Almonds

The optimum levels of Vitamin D

The average needs of vitamin D recommended by Food and Nutrition Board for different age groups are listed below:

 

Life
Stage
Recommended
Amount
Birth
to 12 months
400
IU
Children
1 – 13 years
600
IU
Teens
14 – 18 years
600
IU
Adults
19 – 70 years
600
IU
Adults
71 years and above
800
IU

IU: International UnitsTo test the vitamin D levelsThe vitamin D levels in the body can be measured by testing the blood levels in the form of 25-hydroxy vitamin D. Levels are described in either nanomole per liter or nanograms per milliliter.

The safe upper limit for vitamin D is 1,000 to 1,500 IU/day for infants, 2,500 to 3,000 IU/day for children 1-8
years, and 4,000 IU/day for children 9 years and older, adults.
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Useful Facts About Forests

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Do you know facts about forests that Forests provide fuel, timber, paper, resins, varnishes, dyes, rubber, kapok and much more besides.Softwood is timber that comes from coniferous trees such as pine, larch, fir, and spruce. 75-80% of the natural forests of northern Asia, Europe, and the USA are softwood.

Useful Facts About Forests

  • In vast plantations, fast-growing conifers are set in straight rows so they are easy to cut down.
  • A tropical rainforest has more kinds of trees than any other area in the world.
  • The signs of pollarding are racy to see in these trees in winter when the leaves are gone.
  • Hardwood is timber from broad-leaved trees such as oak. Most hardwood forests are in the tropics.
  • Hardwood trees take over a century to reach maturity.
  • Tropical hardwoods such as mahogany are becoming rare as more hardwood is cut for timber.
  • Do you know facts about forests that Pollarding is cutting the topmost branches of a tree so new shoots grow from the trunk to the same length.
  • Coppicing is cutting tree stems at ground level to encourage several stems to grow from the same root.
  • Half the world’s remaining rainforests will be gone by 2020 if they are cut Mown at the current rate.
  • Every year the world uses 3 billion cubic metres of wood – a pile as big as a football stadium and as high as Mt Everest.
  • Tropical rainforests are the richest and most diverse of all animal habitats.
  • Most animals in tropical rainforests live in the canopy (treetops), and are either agile climbers or can fly.
  • Canopy animals include flying creatures such as bats, birds and insects, and climbers such as monkeys, sloths, lizards, and snakes.
  • Many rainforest creatures can glide through the treetops — these include gliding geckos and other lizards, flying squirrels and even flying frogs.
  • Do you know facts about forests that Year-round rainfall and warm temperatures make rainforests incredibly lush, with a rich variety of plant life.
  • Like the other 41 species of the bird of paradise group, the king bird lives in rainforests. In courtship, the male vibrates his wings for display.
  • Some tree frogs live in the cups of rainwater that are formed by some plants growing high up in the trees.
  • Antelopes, deer, hogs, tapir and many different kinds of rodent (rats and mice) roam the forest floor, hunting for seeds, roots, leaves and fruit.
  • Beside rivers in Southeast Asian rainforests, there may be rhinoceroses, crocodiles, and even elephants.
  • Millions of insect species live in rainforests, including butterflies, moths, bees, termites and ants. There are also many spiders.
  • Rainforest butterflies and moths are often big or vividly coloured, including the shimmering blue morpho of Brazil and the birdwing butterflies.
  • Rainforest birds can be vividly coloured too, and include parrots, toucans acid birds of paradise
  • Do you know facts about forests that Forests of broad-leaved, deciduous trees grow in temperate regions where there are warm, wet summers and cold winters – in places like North America, western Europe, and eastern Asia.
  • Broad-leaved deciduous woods grow where temperatures average above 10°C for over six months a year, and the average annual rainfall is over 400 mm.
  • If there are 100 to 200 days a year warm enough for growth, the main trees in broad-leaved deciduous forests are oaks, elms, birches, maples, beeches, aspens, chestnuts and lindens (basswood).
  • In the tropics where there is plenty of rainfall, broad-leaved evergreens from tropical rainforests.
  • In moist western Europe, beech trees dominate woods on well-drained, shallow soils, especially chalkland; oak trees prefer deep clay soils. Alders grow in waterlogged places.
  • In drier eastern Europe, beeches are replaced by durmast oak and hornbeam and in Russia by lindens.
  • In American woods, beech and linden are rarer than in Europe, but oaks, hickories, and maples are more common.
  • In the Appalachians buckeye and tulip trees dominate.
  • Do you know facts about forests that there is a wide range of shrubs under the trees including dogwood, holly, magnolia, as well as woodland flowers.
  • Very few woods in Europe are entirely natural; most are `secondary’ woods, growing on land once cleared for farms.

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